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Topic: Big news coming from RE this weekend (Read 4840 times)

There is a big event for RE dealer's this weekend in Dallas TX and there is a pretty neat announcement coming soon. Hopefully someone will grab a picture and put it up here once they see it in person. Wish I was able to make the show to check it out first hand!

The bike looks a lot like the early pictures. Motor is 535cc. Paoli shocks not Olins but they look good and should work better then anything used now. Seat height is a bit high about 32" I believe, but it's narrow so that helps. Weighs about 40 pounds less then the C5. Seating position is not so demanding as modern sportbikes. The bars aren't to low and the pegs aren't to high. A little on the small side if your much over 6 feet. They are keeping the price less then a grand more then the C5, but at this time no set price. The bike really is beautiful, unfortunately we won't see them on show floors for a few months. I don't have a picture to post yet but I'll work on that.

The bike looks a lot like the early pictures. Motor is 535cc. Paoli shocks not Olins but they look good and should work better then anything used now. Seat height is a bit high about 32" I believe, but it's narrow so that helps. Weighs about 40 pounds less then the C5. Seating position is not so demanding as modern sportbikes. The bars aren't to low and the pegs aren't to high. A little on the small side if your much over 6 feet. They are keeping the price less then a grand more then the C5, but at this time no set price. The bike really is beautiful, unfortunately we won't see them on show floors for a few months. I don't have a picture to post yet but I'll work on that.

A few more horsepower. They report a nice bump in midrange with a little more top end power. No changes in the external look of the motor that I could tell. No answer on the throttle body size. Also no answer on valve size or gearing.

The info I had about the announcement didn't really give any specifics on the bike. It was mainly a letter about the unveiling and about pre-ordering them. Hopefully they throw up a picture or two of it, as that link appears to be using the pictures from the January New Delhi Auto Expo show.

These are only going to be built to order, so I assume there will be a wait to get one when you order one. There are a couple of different lower seats also being introduced. They were designed by Dave Perewitz. There was no price listed for the Cafe Racer.